Goodreads asked H Raven Rose:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

H Raven Rose Aspiring writers will benefit from reading and writing as much as possible and doing, in my opine, much inner work. I spend a great deal of time alone and, although I consume much content (books, films, plays, and such), I have been willing to live quite simply in order to pursue my creative and spiritual passions and explore consciousness, philosophy, and reality, and cultivate my creativity. I have rarely, for long, done anything that kept me from being able to read and write as much as possible; I have tended to gravitate away from situations, people, and circumstances which would negatively affect my Spirit or creativity in order to avoid compromising my consciousness and ability to create. I advise aspiring writers to find a way to create a simple life that affords them the ability to read and write as much as possible; this could mean giving up almost everything (although not shirking responsibility to one's mate or children) in order to afford this type of freedom. My other advice is to plan for a long game with writing, it will take you a good 20-30 years to see periods of marked progress, visible improvement, in your writing. Lastly, as Ayn Rand stated, only the writer is qualified to critically judge their own work; we start where we are as writers and have a lifetime--however long we are each blessed to live--to ardently seek instruction, practice, and improvement in our writing ability.

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